Searching for files in Visual Studio – Find was stopped in progress
This morning, when I tried to search for some files in Visual Studio using the ‘Find’ (Ctrl + F) dialog, I kept getting the following message for any kind of strings I searched on:
No files were found to look in. Find was stopped in progress.
Even searching for the string “a” returned the same message. Searching online I found out that a number of people had ran into this problem.
The solution: Press Ctrl + Scroll Lock (or Ctrl + Break) and retry your search.
I still haven’t found out how to regenerate the problem and why pressing Ctrl + Scroll Lock solved it in the first place.